Friday, September 30, 2011

People, please

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For my disclaimer on this series, see here “One of the unintended consequences of contemporary church strategies that revolve around perform...
Thursday, September 29, 2011

Let's state the obvious

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For my disclaimer on this series, see here “We are not the end of the gospel; God is.”— Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American D...
Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Only God can do it

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For my disclaimer on this series, see here “It is the way of Christ. Instead of asserting ourselves, we crucify ourselves. Instead of imagin...

Blind spots

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I just ran across an interesting post here about home schooling blind spots, but I think you could just as easily say parenting blind spot...

It creeps in and consumes you

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Have I started writing horror? No, but that is exactly what technology can do. Check out this post by Andy Le Peau from IVP: I was at a con...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

What Holy Spirit?

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For my disclaimer on this series, see here “I am a part of a system that has created a whole host of means and methods, plans and strategies...
Monday, September 26, 2011

The american dream and the gospel

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For my disclaimer on this series, see here “The dangerous assumption we unknowingly accept in the American dream is that our greatest asset ...
Friday, September 23, 2011

A new creation

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For my disclaimer on this series, see here “We are saved from our sins by a free gift of grace, something that only God can do in us and tha...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Sinking sand

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For my disclaimer on this series, see here “We have been told all that is required is a one-time decision, maybe even mere intellectual asse...
Friday, September 16, 2011

Argh!

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My computer died today. All the posts were on it...at first they thought it was the video card, which was under warranty. It's not :( It...
Thursday, September 15, 2011

I'm a good person

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For my disclaimer on this series, see here “My life is not going right, but God loves me and has a plan to fix my life. I simply need to fol...
Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Stop and look

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For my disclaimer on this series, see here “The gospel reveals eternal realities about God that we would sometimes rather not face. We prefe...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011

The American Gospel

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For my disclaimer on this series, see here “Fundamentally, the gospel is the revelation of who God is, who we are, and how we can be reconci...
Monday, September 12, 2011

Poor Guy

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I feel sorry for Guy . He's back in the US and is being subjected to the standard way of doing "church" in the US. Read his o...

Which Jesus do you want?

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For my disclaimer on this series, see here “...we are starting to redefine Christianity. We are giving in to the dangerous temptation to tak...
Friday, September 09, 2011

Telling it like it is

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For my disclaimer on this series, see here . “I am convinced that we as Christ followers in American churches have embraced values and ideas...
Thursday, September 08, 2011

Advice from a teacher

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Somebody posted this link on Facebook, I think, but it bears reposting. As someone who taught High School Latin, I can agree with him. The...

Popularity

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For my disclaimer on this series, see here “Jesus apparently wasn't interested in marketing himself to the masses. His invitations to po...

A different book

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Late spring or early summer—I can't remember which—while we were returning the grandkids, someone or two suggested a book to me that loo...
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Wednesday, September 07, 2011

In the Assyrian chariotry...

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“It is remarkable that, after the fall of Samaria, the Assyrians redeployed a large Israelite chariot force to fight as a unit of the royal ...